Root vs Route
 

Just sayin'

A tree has roots. Notice the double o's. The word 'route' does not have double o's, it has 'out.' Route rhymes with out, not with root.

It's like the difference between shoot and shout.

I don't see that as often as someone having problems stopping because their "breaks" and worn out.

...or having issues with their axels?

The worst offenders are:
there / their / they're
too / to / two

But that's why there are good citizen crime fighters who are anointed and appointed to protect the world from improper spelling and grammar:
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"rediculous"
"noone" Two words, not one. That one drives me nuts.

The pronunciation is up to the user as both are accepted as correct.

Merriam-Webster lists both ˈrüt and ˈrau̇t as acceptible pronunciations for "route".

The common UK pronunciation of "route" rhymes with "shoot".

The common US pronunciation of "route" rhymes with "shout".

Not to be confused with "rout".


Also... is this a rüter or a rau̇-tər ?

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What is the correct pronunciation of the word "route"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

That is a router/bridge combination, what we call a "brouter"

Of course, if you hack it, you can get root on it too...

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Cranky old man!

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root: Pronounced like hoof, roof, woof
route: Pronounced like root
rout: Pronounced like route

See? simple! The problem is what do hoof, roof and woof sound like?

Meh, regional differences.

I'm from the NE, we pronounce Mary, merry, and marry three distinct ways unlike the rest of the country.

Get your kicks on raut 66?

Just look in a dictionary and you will see that either pronunciation is fine. Don't confuse personal preference with correctness.

Nucular......

especially coming from world leaders...

i hate:
effect-affect. I always use effect, figure I get it rights 50% of the time
lose-loose. have to stop and think about them

I am not a great speller, sometimes I just don't care, lot of the time my fingers hit the wrong key first and I transpose 2 letters. the keyboard on the this computer is shifted to the left so that does not help either.

Nah! The worst offenders are...

"would of"; "could of"; "should of", "might of" :rolleyes:

It's HAVE not OF!!!:mad:

Monday rant over!

I'm from the south....I can't pronounce anything correctly :). There's a small island on our Outer Banks (Harkers Island) and the residents from there have a unique dialect....I can't even begin to phonetically spell how they would pronounce "out" :). Ouwt...

In much of the deep south there are almost no single syllable works.

Eat become eee-yatt. Boy is bow-aye. A real multi syllable work is a real (ree-yall) challenge.

When people say "Walla" (Viola), I just want to slap their slackjawed okie ass.

Or when they spell it like a stringed instrument ...SmileWavy

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And then there are the So Cal dingbat girls who pronounce "uhm" as a three-syllable word ("Uh-eh-um"). Makes me cringe every time.

Ha! I'm going to leave that. Way too funny! That's what I get for using the phone to post on the forums.

Another phrase I am always astonished at is "For all intensive purposes" it just makes me scratch my head and wonder at how they ever got out of school. Maybe it was a dropout.

For all you computer network guys, don't go to Australia expecting to get a job rooting...

Root vs Route
 

Go up to the Boston area and pronounce Worcester the way it's spelled sometime and time how long it takes for the locals to stop laughing at you [emoji4]

Oot and aboot.

I'm gonna sale this car.

Porsche...enough said

flair / flare .... roll / role ...you're / your.... don't get me started...

Arggh... not viola (big damn violin)

Voila' with an accent mark. It's French.

Was a guy on here with a french surname, from Canada that kept writing 'walla'.

You mean "voilà". Yes, most people these days say it wrong. It's more "vwa-la" than "walla". You need to have a little "v" sound before the "w" sound.

How about "coupon". The "q-pon" pronunciation is offense to my brain.

Actually that's in a line from Elvira Mistress of the Dark. She can say it any way she wants in my book....

Viola is like a violin only bigger and deeper in tone....

Voila is what you were looking for...

Edit!
Was a little late to this party!
I was busy getting my kicks on route (like shout) 66.
Edit again: Was late to that party too!
Going to watch hockey instead....

Got a pronunciation one for you...

Secrete...Secretion
Discrete...discretion

I left the viola spelling up to give this thread some humor. I'm still laughing about that to myself.

She must live in Viola Viola, somewhere in Washington.

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